Judge overturns $1.5 bln ruling against Microsoft A U.S. judge on Monday threw out a record $1.5 billion verdict against Microsoft Corp , ruling the world’s largest software had not infringed on audio technology patents held by France’s Alcatel-Lucent. [Reuters]

F5 buys Acopia for $210M F5 joins the storage market with the acquisition of file virtualization switch company Acopia. [SearchStorage.com]

On August 7, the first day of the LinuxWorld San Francisco show, Projity will officially release a public beta of its freely downloadable open-source competitor to Microsoft Project project-management software. [All About Microsoft]

Hiring programmers and the high cost of low quality An anonymous reader writes “Why is it so hard to find good programmers? And why should companies favor hiring fewer more senior developers rather than many junior ones? Frank Wiles discusses his thoughts in his article A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality” [RevSys, via Slashdot]

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